ELA+3+Lesson+23

Topic: Going Places-Reasons to take a Journey

Common Core Standards: RL3.5 Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.

W3.3b Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.

SL3.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

L3.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

L3.2c Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.

L3.3b Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written English.

Suggested Student Objectives: 1. Students will identify a sequence of events. 2. Students will summarize important events in order. 3. Students will identify the characteristics of good dialogue and use it to show what happens to characters.

Suggested Additional Readings: 1. __The Very Hungry Caterpillar__- Eric Carle 2. __Searching for Oliver K. Woodman__- Darcy Pattison 3. Lyrics to several butterfly songs (see link below)

Resource Links: 1. [|Butterfly songs] 2. [|50 states] 3.[|words to fifty nifty united states]

Activities: 1. [|Sequencing Activities] 2. [|Create your own Oliver K. Woodman] 3. [|Create a dialogue] After learning about dialogue, students can create a dialogue between Tameka and Oliver K. Woodman. The dialogue will be about Oliver's journey and what he and Tameka will do together. Students will present their dialogues to the class.

Assessments: 1. Practice book, Volume 2, p. 101 2. Weekly Test, Unit 5, Lesson 23 3. Dialogue Presentation, TE Resources, p. 15

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